Music: Requiem

At Rome's Ciampino Airport, Italy's Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat and
nearly i ,000 people crowded around Pan American Flight 156 from New
York to honor an Italian returning forever home. From the plane was
borne a 990-lb., copper-lined coffin, and that night, in a railway
baggage car, the remains of Arturo Toscanini were taken north to Milan.

Through the grey streets early the following morning, a crowd walked
behind the hearse to La Scala where 20,000 people were waiting. For two
hours, housewives, dignitaries, workingmen, schoolboys, aged musicians
filed through the gleaming foyer past the coffin lying in state under
La Scala's...